The Temperance Army Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDD EECEFF GHIHJJJ HHJHKKK LMENOOO PQQQRRR CJJJSFF HEJEDDD| Though you see no banded army | A |
| Though you hear no cannons rattle | B |
| We are in a mighty contest | C |
| We are fighting a great battle | B |
| We are few but we are right | D |
| And we wage the holy fight | D |
| Night and day and day and night | D |
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| If we do not fail or falter | E |
| If we do not sleep or slumber | E |
| We shall win in this great contest | C |
| Though the foe is twice our number | E |
| This the burden of our song | F |
| 'We are few but we are strong | F |
| And right must triumph over wrong ' | - |
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| O my sisters O my brothers | G |
| There is death all round about us | H |
| Must we then sit down discouraged | I |
| Will you let the wine cup rout us | H |
| Hear the drunkard's awful wail | J |
| See the mourners bowed and pale | J |
| Will you coward then say 'fail' | J |
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| Say not that your heart is with us | H |
| When you do not help or aid us | H |
| All who love the cause sincerely | J |
| Can do something God has made us | H |
| Tongues to talk with you can say | K |
| Something if you will each day | K |
| That will help us on our way | K |
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| Though you are not highly gifted | L |
| Though you are not bard or poet | M |
| Though you cannot preach or lecture | E |
| You can love the cause and show it | N |
| Boldly in each thing you do | O |
| Seeking all that's pure and true | O |
| This will be a help from you | O |
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| You can say the liquor traffic | P |
| Is a curse to any nation | Q |
| You can say that prohibition | Q |
| Is a blessing and salvation | Q |
| You can sow good seeds and though | R |
| You may never see them grow | R |
| They will not be lost I know | R |
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| In this mighty temperance contest | C |
| Where no guns or cannons rattle | J |
| Though you cannot lead the army | J |
| Or be chieftain of the battle | J |
| With that mighty sword the tongue | S |
| You can fight against the wrong | F |
| You can sing some temperance song | F |
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| Say not that you cannot aid us | H |
| Drops of water make the river | E |
| Make the mighty Mississippi | J |
| That flows on hand on for ever | E |
| Every word you say for Right | D |
| Gives us courage gives us might | D |
| And brings nearer morn and night | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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